Associations to the word «Scuttlebutt»
Noun
Adverb
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Wiktionary
SCUTTLEBUTT, noun. (nautical) (countable) A butt with a scuttle, a keg of drinking water with a hole cut in it, on board ship.
SCUTTLEBUTT, noun. (informal) (uncountable) Gossip, rumour, idle chatter.
Dictionary definition
SCUTTLEBUTT, noun. A report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people; "the divorce caused much gossip".
Wise words
The most important things are the hardest things to say.
They are the things you get ashamed of because words
diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem
timeless when they are in your head to no more than living
size when they are brought out.